Machines | The Largest Walking Dragline Excavator in The World
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The Big Muskie was a model 4250-W Bucyrus-Erie dragline (the only one ever built). With a 220-cubic-yard (170 m3) bucket, it was the largest single-bucket digging machine ever created and one of the world's largest mobile earth-moving machines. It cost $25 million in 1969, the equivalent of $161 million today adjusted for inflation. Big Muskie was powered by electricity supplied at 13,800 volts via a trailing cable, which had its own transporter/coiling units to move it. The electricity powered the main drives, eighteen 1,000 horsepower (750 kW) and ten 625 horsepower (466 kW) DC electric motors. Once it had stripped all the overburden in one area of the pit, it could move itself short distances (usually less than a mile) to another pre-prepared digging position using massive hydraulic walker feet, although due to its 13,500 ton weight it traveled very slowly (1.76 inches per second (4.5 cm/s), roughly 0.1 mph) and required a carefully graded travelway with a roadbed of heavy wooden beams to avoid sinking into the soil and tipping over or getting stuck. During its 22 years of service, Big Muskie removed more than 608,000,000 cubic yards (465,000,000 m3) of overburden, twice the amount of earth moved during the construction of the Panama Canal, uncovering over 20,000,000 tonnes (22,000,000 short tons) of Ohio brown coal.
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Stable elbow whereas length green king.
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in the70'swhen we was kids we use to go some weekends and whach the big musky work.in1991was the last i saw it work with my bro. n law.all is left is the shovel n bucket chain it sets in logan...or morgan county ohio
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5:57 What did he say about the number of cars?
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WTF IS 150 cubic yards? how much would it weight if it was water? you utterly retarded morons with your measurement system predating times of your planet discovery...
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Big Muskie >>> was just across the way from me it was Huge ! the Bucket is at the park just down the road from where it last breathed so all can see
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thats just amazing.
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Idiotic machine. A Schaufelradbagger is much more efficient.
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I have been in that bucket.
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Bagger 288.
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the monster awesomd
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Just what an archaeologist needs.
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Wrong Thumbnail f*** waste of time
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I had the privilege of seeing this mighty machine in operation. Awesome power!
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It's too bad they couldn't save those two machines...they'd make awesome tours for people wanting to see them in person.
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5:40 shows nice sedimentation from The Flood 4,300 years ago that created all the coal they are digging out?
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Wow, that is Amazing.
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+Extreme TV what show and episode is this clip from? I've spent the last 2hrs trying to find this show in its entirety and can't find anything!